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   Aug 9, 2021 · The Maytals - Never Grow Old (1964) I have a friend that will pull out Toots and the Maytals for anybody that insists they absolutely hate ska music. You can understand why. Toots Hibbert is an ...

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   Jun 2, 2021 · Gie Knaeps/Getty Images. The ska style known as 2 tone developed in the late 1970s and early '80s in England. According to SF Gate, while reggae was exploding in Jamaica, the popularity of new wave in the U.K. made nostalgia for '60s ska fashionable, and British bands picked it up (pun intended).

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   What is ska music?

   • Ska music, a genre commonly known as “the music of the people,” was formally birthed in 1959, and is a hybrid sound that owes much of its success to the popularity of its influences. On the weekends, native Kingstonians would gather on “lawns” (open neighborhood spaces) to dance at the parties sound systems created.

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   What kind of music does a ska band have?

   • As the band have progressed, they’ve become an eclectic blend of Latin music, ska, funk, reggae, and jazz, but in their early days, they leaned heavily into a fabuloso kinetic ska sound. They wrote several amazing ska songs in their early years, which started back in 1985. Most of their early records are good, with some great songs.

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   Are ska bands still popular today?

   • However, we're probably a ways off from hitting anything like peak third wave ska numbers, like in September of 1998 when four different ska bands made it to the top 20 on the Billboard alternative chart. Still, American ska mainstays like Reel Big Fish continue to perform to huge audiences today.

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   Why is ska music so popular in Jamaica?

   • While ska music, the forefather to reggae and rocksteady, has always been intertwined with Jamaican identity, it has also been able to find local footing in places that became aware of it decades after it first exploded from sound systems on Orange Street.

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4. goodblacknews.org › 2020/07/27 › music-mondayMUSIC MONDAY: Celebrating The History and Evolution of Ska ...

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   Jul 27, 2020 · By goodblacknews on July 27, 2020. Ska originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to reggae. It combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska developed further in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, and Duke Reid formed “sound systems” to play American ...

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   A journey from Jamaica to California, via England. by Evan Nicole Brown September 18, 2018. Orange County ska punk band Reel Big Fish, performing live in 2013. Jester Jay Goldman/ (CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

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6. daily.bandcamp.com › lists › classic-ska-listA Brief History of Classic Ska | Bandcamp Daily

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   Apr 28, 2022 · Ska, Jamaica’s first home-grown contemporary music, was born in the rush of nationalism that went with the coming of independence from British colonial rule at the end of the 1950s. The new nation expected new music that would shift away from the American sounds that dominated the dancehalls and was broadcast from powerful radio stations in ...

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7. www.masterclass.com › articles › ska-music-guideA Guide to Ska Music: History and Sounds of Ska Music

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   Jun 7, 2021 · A Guide to Ska Music: History and Sounds of Ska Music. Ska music serves as a bridge between 1960s Jamaican music, 1970s British dance music, and 1990s American punk music. It does this by fusing many musical influences to create a genre unique unto itself.

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   Ska ( / skɑː /; Jamaican: [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [1] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.